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For Germany to lose: Denmark has to win 1-0, 2-1 or with a bigger goal difference and Portugal has to win.
If Denmark wins 3-2, 4-3, 5-4 etc. then Germany and Denmark qualify regardless of the Portugal v Holland result.
Holland has to win with by at least 2 goals to go through and hope Germany wins against Denmark.

Almost all games were very exciting, even the cheaper teams put a solid effort, play on the counter attack, have a serious defensive effort, and personally I prefer it to that boring passing game of Barcelona.

If Germany and Netherland loose and Denmark would win with two goals ahead, then Germany is out.

If Germany wins and the Netherlands wins with two goals ahead, Germany and Netherlands are further.

Thats why many dutch fans want to see Germany win, tomorrow.

I don't see how Germany could still not qualify for the quarter finals.

Even if they lose to Denmark and Portugal wins, we have 3 teams with 6 points.
But if the points are the same, the first thing that counts is the direct result of the game between the two teams in question. Germany won against Portugal, so they would always stay in front of them, no matter what.
It would then be
1. Denmark
2. Germany
3. Portugal

Because there are 3 teams on equal points, the head to head of ALL the games between them are counted.

If Denmark defeats Germany, Germany defeats Portugal, Portugal defeats Denmark, the head to head for all of them are 1W1L. Then the tiebreaker between them will be goal difference, followed by number of goals scored. Again, only the games between them are counted (ie. the games against Netherlands are out of the picture).

When three puppygirls named after pastries are on top of each other, it is called Eclair a'la menthe et Biscotti aux fraises avec beaucoup de Ricotta sur le dessus.
Most of all, you have to be disciplined and you have to save, even if you hate our current financial system. Because if you don't save, then you're guaranteed to end up with nothing.

Oh man, Germany was realy slow, sometimes. No ideas in the front, not much movement.. But sometimes, it works out nicely. Lukas Podolski made a goal on his 100th international game. Congrats to him. I think Germany could win agains Greece but we will loose hard against Spain or other high class teams.

So in the end it will be Greece against Germany on Friday... cool, that will be very funny.

Nonetheless, save for another miracle occuring, Germany has one of the two best approaches against the boring football of Barcelona that Spain, France and Russia imitate the other being Italy and Greece disciplined defense (with different formations for obvious reasons).

I think Germany could win agains Greece but we will loose hard against Spain or other high class teams.

No, it's the other way round. The German game is pre-geared against Spain - see the possession play, and the controlled risk-averse setup. This system will take the edge off against weaker teams (leading to fewer goals compared to the counterplay routs in 2008/2010), but the idea is that "it should still be good enough". As it turned out to be. 9 points in this group is quite an achievement.

Whether or not it's going to be sufficient remains to be seen. We also have options to go for a more offensive setup (Reus, Schürrle), but it was felt to be unnecessary so far. I am convinced however that any game against Spain/Italy/France would be very very close. "Losing hard" is what will not happen. No way.